Regional Studies Association Annual Conference 2008

27th-29th May, Prague, Czech Republic
Regions: The Dilemmas of Integration and Competition

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Author(s) Title of Paper
Pap Ági World Heritage and Tourism - The effects of the World Heritage title on the tourism of the Sites and the neighbouring settlements presented via a Hungarian case study
I. Semih Akçomak & Bas ter Weel The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands
S. Alexiadis & J. Tomkins Assessing Regional Convergence under Conditions of Technology Creation and Adoption: Evidence from an Enlarged Europe
Jirí Alina Region consequences of the transport impacts quantification
Isaac Kwamena Arthur Innovations and Experience Economy: A tool for rural food sector competitiveness and rural development?
Elisabeth Baier & Jannika Mattes Drivers of innovation between globalisation and localisation
David Bailey & Stewart MacNeill The Rover Task Force: A Case Study in Proactive and Reactive Policy Intervention?
Márta Bakucz The Role of Tourism Destination Management Organisations in Hungary
Daniel Baumgartner Measuring entrepreneurship in Swiss rural regions - concept and implications for empirical studies
Christina Beatty, Steve Fothergill & Ryan Powell Women on incapacity benefits: New survey evidence
Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier & Caglar Ozden Diasporas
Karl Beelen Interpreting territories: urban design's purchase on Holland's urbanizing West.
Andrew Beer Learning the Lessons of Restructuring: Government and Regional Responses to Employment Loss in the Automotive Sector
Nicola Bellini, Anna Loffredo & Cecilia Pasquinelli Images of otherness in place marketing: Maremma as the unexpected Tuscany
Magdalena Belof New instruments for new challenges in transborder planning co-operation between Poland and Czech Republic.
Dag Magne Berge & Ove Bjarnar Technological change and transformation of clusters The Møre and Romsdal maritime cluster in Mid-West Norway, 1960s - 2008.
Thomas Berger & Gillian Bristow Benchmarking regional performance: a critical reflection on indices of competitiveness
Nigel Berkeley & David Jarvis Regeneration Fatigue: Tackling Persistent Problems of Local Deprivation
Gulhan Bilen Cohesion Policy within the Lisbon Paradigm
Ove Bjarnar Global pipelines and diverging patterns of knowledge sharing in regional clusters
Rafael Boix Industrial districts, innovation and I-district effect: territory or industrial specialization?
Gillian Bristow & Dylan Jones-Evans The prospects for public sector led regional innovation systems: lessons from Wales
Lenka Brown & Jana Kouøilová Change in an approach and in practice of the European Social Fund programme implementation in the Czech Republic
Leslie Budd Cohesive Divergence? The regional implications of the economic governance of the Euro-Area
Oddbjørn Bukve & Sogn og Fjordane The governance field - a conceptual tool for regional studies
Caroline Chapain & Alan Murie The impact of factory closure on local communities and economies: the case of the MG Rover Longbridge closure in Birmingham.
Leslie Budd The limits of post-Lisbon Governance in the European Union
Thomas J. Christoffel Local - Regional Community and Political Geography: A Proposed Scale for Regions
Ioli Christopoulou Attaining Sustainable Development: An Exanimation of the Planning of the 2007-2013 Programming Period in Greece
Pan Chunyan, Wang Hongyang & Liu Yang Attaining Sustainable Development: An Exanimation of the Planning of the 2007-2013 Programming Period in Greece
Serge Coulombe Employment Adjustments in High-Trade-Exposed Manufacturing in Canada
Graham Crampton Environmental and Transport Indicators in the 'Old 15' and the 'New 12'
Henryk Cwiklinski & Grzegorz Pawlowski The Growth of the Gdansk Metropolitan Area and Development Problems of the Whole Pomeranian Region
Milan Damborský & Marek Jetmar Localization decision-making of the firms as dynamic process
Vincent Dautel & Olivier Walther Employment growth and firms' mobility: Metropolitan Luxembourg in the making (1994-2005)
Maria Davì & Isidora Barbaccia Dynamic analysis of sectorial specialization and agglomeration economies in the Sicilian Local Labour Systems
Alfredo Del Monte, Antonio Acconcia & Luca Pennacchio Regional Distribution of IPOs and Growth: An Empirical Analysis
Department for Communities and Local Government Why Place Matters and Implications for the Role of Central, Regional and Local Government
Philip Eadie & Nicola Underdown Local and Regional Economic Development: a perspective from the research practitioner community in the English regions
Itziar Urizar Elcano New Challenges and Opportunities for Regions and SMEs in the Global Learning Economy
Bahar C. Erbas, Ali Fikirkoca & Arcan Tuzcu Innovativeness of Manufacturing Small and Medium Size Enterprises in Turkish Regional Innovation System
Pinar Falcioglu Spatial determinants of regional productivity in Turkish manufacturing industry: An analysis for the regions of Turkey
Éva G. Fekete Innovations in Local Development
Anton Filipenko Regional Innovations in Transition Economies (the Case of Ukraine)
Annamaria Fiore, Carlo Gadaleta Caldarola, Maria Jennifer Grisorio & Francesco Prota Do we really need a regional innovation agency? Some insights from the experience of an Italian region.
Arnt Fløysand & Stig-Erik Jakobsen Searching for embeddedness of innovations in rural areas: a practice turn
James Foreman-Peck & Tom Nicholls Peripherality and the Impact of SME Takeovers
Carlos Freire How does the experience economy affect the entrepreneurial dynamics?
Nikolina Fuduric Another Paradox in the Periphery? Innovations among non-novel entrepreneurs
Daniel Gabaldón-Estevana, Francesc Xavier Molina Morales & Ignacio Fernández-de-Lucio Research contracts and patents in the innovation system of the Spanish tile district
Daniel Galland Governance in Regional Development Planning? Exploring the Danish Case
Petr Gandalovic Czech rural regions in view of demographic development of Czech society
Iker Etxano Gandariasbeitia Local Development and Natural Protected Areas: Enforcement of Rural Policy in the Northumberland National Park
Michaela Gensheimer From ESPON 2006 to ESPON 2013. European Observation on Territorial Development and Cohesion
Arianna Giovannini The North of England: a multifaceted region, and its representations along the 'North-South Divide'
Lidia Greco & Emma Corigliano A job in a call center: trajectories and traps in the Southern Italian labour market
Lenka Gregorová Spatial Interdependence of Local Public Expenditures. Evidence from the Czech Republic.
Rüdiger Hamm, Christiane Goebel, Harry Webers, Elke Van Tendeloo & Jos Hensgens A cross-border Technological Top euRegio: Cold feet or Real Challenge?
Jens Christian Hansen Regional reform in Norway and Denmark
Tom Hashimoto The Issues on the "Trans-European" Development: Politico-military Concerns in Turkey
Gábor Hegedüs The Spatial Planning in Relation to Gated Communities in the Central Hungary Region
John Henneberry, Claire Roberts & Steven Rowley Regional Inequalities in Office Property Development and Investment in the UK
Mikolaj Herbst Human Capital, Regional Growth and Covergence in Poland
Katarzyna Hermann-Pawlowska Towards multi-level governance under eu cohesion policy in Poland?
Kristinn Hermannsson, Peter McGregor, Nikos Pappas & Kim Swales The sub-regional impact of HEI's: Potentials and problems of simulating HEI demand-impacts on the Glasgow economy
Nola Hewitt-Dundas Knowledge Generation, Innovation and Space - Exploring the relationship between UK Universities and Business Innovation
Ann Hodgkinson & Timothy Atkin Regional Exporters in Unfavourable Economic Conditions: A Case study of the Shoalhaven 2001 and 2007
Jarno Hoekman Collaboration networks as carriers of knowledge spillovers: Evidence from EU27 regions
Gyula Horváth Difficulties of Region Building Processes in Eastern and Central Europe
Gert-Jan Hospers Small but smart - lessons from Vorarlberg
Donald Houston & Paul Sissons The Labour Market Engagement of Women Claiming Disability Benefits in the UK: Qualitative Evidence
Romeo Ionescu & Raducan Oprea The Post-adhering Environmental Policy of Romania
Dessy Irawati Catching Up Process for Knowledge Diffusion in the Automotive Industry: The Importance of Cluster and Institutional Network for Indonesian Case Study
David Jarvis, Hannah Lambie & Nigel Berkeley Creative Industries and Urban Regeneration
Yuri Jo & Chang-Yang Lee Agglomeration Economies, Technological Capability, and Firm Location Decision
Calvin Jones, Max Munday & Neil Roche Can Sports Stadia Ever Be Economically Significant? Evidence from the Cardiff Millennium Stadium
David Katrencik, Joanna Tyrowicz & Piotr Wójcik Unemployment Convergence in Transition
Tom Kauko Towards demand inducement, sustainability criteria, and passive government roles? The economic geographies of real estate development in urban regeneration
Natalija Kazlauskiene EU Cohesion Policy 2007-2013
Petr Klusácek, Stanislav Martinát, Walter Matznetter & Alexander Wisbauer 138 years of urban development in Central Europe - a long-term comparison of large city regions in Austria and the Czech Republic
Kinga A Komorowska Powerful or powerless regions? The case of Poland and the Czech Republic
Art Kovacic Competitiveness Evaluation of Slovenian Economy
Christian Krajewski Postmodern Tourism and Experience Economies in the Ruhr Valley as a Strategy for Structural Change
Jan Kranich R&D and the Agglomeration of Industries
Horváth Krisztián The investment's role in the expansion of innovation particularly on the South-Alföld Region in Hungary
Yoram Krozer, Johan Mekkes & Simon Tijsma Innovations in the region: energy saving and renewable energy program
Waldo Krugell and Marianne Matthee Measuring the Inward FDI Potential of South African Regions
Waldo Krugell, Hannelie Otto & Jacky van der Merwe To Make a Better Life Happen Where People Live: Evidence from the South African Community Survey 2007
Stratis Koutsoukos & Catherine Brooks Coastal Tourism in Yorkshire & The Humber: Has European Funding 2000-2006 Made a Difference?
Laila Kule The Urban-Rural Dimension of the Riga City Region Building and Spatial Planning
Christian Lamour The Greater Region: An overlapping of public cross-border communities in a competitive environment
Luciana Lazzeretti The creative capacity of culture between lateral proximity and new creative milieu
Ki-Dong Lee, Seok-Joon Hwang & Min-hwan Lee Agglomeration Economies and Location Choice of Inward Foreign Direct Investments in Korea
Imre Lengyel The Emergence of Urban Regions as Institutionalised Political Entities in Norway
Einar Leknes The Emergence of Urban Regions as Institutionalised Political Entities in Norway
Antonio Lerro & Giovanni Schiuma Strategic performance management and local development: The case of the Murgia Italian industrial district
Ingjerd Liberg What are the conditions for female entrepreneurs in the Import and Export business inside Hedmark County in Norway?
Gerd Lintz & Astrid Nobis The Local Environmental Management Approach Ökoprofit - Spatial Proximity Supports Sustainable Development
Martino Lo Cascio, Massimo Bagarani & Simona Zampino Economic space trajectory through different regional growth models.
Elisabetta Lodigiani Diaspora Externalities and Technology Diffusion
Anne Lorentzen Knowledge networks in the experience economy: An analysis of four flagship projects in Frederikshavn
Ana Flávia Machado, Lizia de Figueiredo & Juliana Rodrigues Vieira Do we need the mind the gap in Brazil? Evolution of regional wage gap
Paolo Margari & Stefano De Rubertis Benefits and contradictions of participation set by a local development programme in Southern Italy
Tim Marshall New forms of regional and strategic planning in England
Robbert Maseland Does Germany have an East-West Problem? Regional growth patterns in Germany since reunification.
Marianne Matthee & Wim Naudé Export diversity and regional growth in a developing country context: empirical evidence
Mr Chris McDonald with Prof Al Rainnie, Dr Andrea Kirk-Brown & Assoc Prof Lionel Frost The new regionalism and the role of intermediary organisations in regional development
Evert Meijers, Joris Hoekstra & Ricardo Aguado Strategic planning for city networks. The emergence of a Basque Global City?
Avinoam Meir & Jaqueline Duenias Community, University, and Relationship in Space: Shaping Regional Identity in Southern Israel
Concetta Mendolicchio A Disaggregate Analysis of Private Returns to Education in Italy
Valeria Miceli Innovation Policies: Italian technological districts and their regional innovation systems
Christopher Middleton & Philip Freestone The Impact of Culture-led Regeneration on Regional Identity in North East England
Willem Molle European policies for Innovation and Cohesion; from loose coordination to partial integration
Elisa Montresor & Francesco Pecci Cohesion policies and rural development policies at regional level in the enlarged EU
Michael Morgan, Jörgen Elbe & Javier de Esteban Curiel Has the experience economy arrived? A comparison of three visitor-dependent areas
Ida Musialkowska Research and Development Financing with Use of the Structural Funds in Poland
Zoltán Nagy & Dániel Kuttor Analysis of the territorial disparities in the Visegrad Four Countries
Mike Navarro, Juan José Gibaja, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio & Ricardo Aguado Regional innovation systems in EU-25. Towards a typology based on economic development and innovation.
Jon Gunnar Nesse Focused Acquisition as Strategy in Community Restructuring: What are the Success Criteria?
Roger Normannm, Arunas Augustinaitis, Richard Ennals, Hans Chr Garmann Johnsen & Edgaras Leichteris Multi-level Governance in Regional Development Policies: Reflections on United Kingdom, Lithuania, and Norway
Vojtìch Novotný Assessment of the effects of the core-periphery phenomena on life quality. A case study of Prague and Central Bohemian District
Stefan Obkircher & Karin Saurwein Spatial Orientations and Regional Identities in the Alpenrhein Valley - Sustainable and Cross-Border Regional Development from an Actor-Centred Perspective
Brendan O'Keeffe & Jim Walsh LEADER Partnerships as Agents of Rural Economic Development - lessons from Ireland
Agnieszka Olechnicka Regional potential of Polish science (on the basis of parametric evaluation by Ministry of Science and Higher Education as well as Web of Science database)
Tamayo Orbegozo, U. & Vicente Molina A. Environmental management and its influence on competitiveness improvement perception in the Basque Country enterprises
Pier Paolo Patrucco & BRICK (Bureau of Research on Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge) Institutional change in complex innovation systems: the case of the automobile industry in Piedmont
Frank Peck & Ignazio Cabras Public procurement and regional development: The impact of local authority expenditure on local economies
Martin Pelucha & Zuzana Bednarikova Periphery regions through governance and networking leadership: The case of the Czech Republic
José Miguel Giner Pérez & Carmen Tolosa Bailén The local digital divide in Spain: A territorial analysis of the internet penetration in the Spanish households
Enza Roberta Petrillo Trans European Network (TENs) V in Slovenia: EUization or strategic planning?
Mario Polèse The Burgenland Rule: A Simple Theory of the Geography of Regional Inequality with a brief look at Europe, North America and beyond
Liz Price, Martin Elliott White & Andrew Atherton What are the real business opportunities associated with the development of a new regional airport? A case study of Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield
Francesco Quatraro Regional Knowledge Base and Productivity Growth: The Evidence of Italian Manufacturing.
Conceição Rego, & Manuel Tagarroso, & Isabel Vieira Impacts of Mining in Low Density Regions: A Case Study in Castro Verde
Kevin Richardson The Role of Cities & City Regions in EU Regional Programmes
Stephen Roper, James H Love, & Jun Du Knowledge Pathways and Innovation: How do R&D and Skills Enable Knowledge Acquisition from Different Sources?
Martin T.W. Rosenfeld Local Fiscal Equalization Schemes as Instruments for Compensating Cities for Benefit Spillovers - Empirical Findings for Germany
Orit Rotem-Mindali Urban form and trends in shopping journeys: Empirical evidence from the Netherlands.
Antti Saartenoja, Katja Rinne-Koski & Timo Lakso Local Governance and Flexible Lifestyle in Rural Regions
Davide Sartori Multi-Level Governance In Large Transport Infrastructures
Walter Scherrer Cultural Industries, Knowledge Transmission, and Regional Innovation Activity: Performing Arts in Salzburg
Suntje Schmidt & Manuela Wolke Knowledge Economic Specialisation of Regions as development Potentials
Olga Shevchenko Fiscal Decentralization as the Fundamental Mechanism of Contemporary Regional Policy: Case of Ukraine
Mariarosaria Del Signore & Annalina Sarra Internal Migration in Poland: A Spatial Interaction Model Approach
Mamica Skenderi, Phil Wright & Costas Alexiou Technological Transfer Through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on Host Economies - The Case of Albania
Lenka Slavíková & Jirina Jílková Implementing the Public Participation Concept into Water Management in the Czech Republic - Critical Analysis
David M. Smith & Enid Wistrich Identity, Diversity and Political Engagement in the Regions
Saveria Spezzano Specialist Building Competencies for Public Administrations: The Case of "Evaluation Units in the Calabria Region, Italy"
Gianluca Spinaci The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) a new legal tool for multi-level territorial governance
Katerina Stancová Global Challenges, Local Strategies. Highly Skilled Migration and Local Development. Case Study: Indian highly skilled migrants in Italy and their impact on the local development in India
Kristin Stevik Assessing the impacts of sports events: The Birkebeiner-case
Lubica Strakova Benchmarking Regional Knowledge Demand and Supply in Emerging Knowledge Regions: A study across Four European Regions
P. Thompson, D. Jones-Evans & C. Kwong Entrepreneurship and the Domains of Deprivation in Wales
Salvador Magallo The Role of EU Structural Funds in Poland 2007-2013 in fostering the innovative capacity of the service sector: a methodological approach
Mirko Titze & Matthias Brachert & Alexander Kubis The Identification of regional industrial clusters using Qualitative Input-Output-Analysis
André Torre On the Role Played by Temporary Geographical Proximity in Knowledge Transmission
Michaela Trippl & Franz Tödtling Cluster Renewal in Old Industrial Regions - Continuity or Radical Change?
Rickard Ulmestig Changing boundaries in labour market policy
Unknown Author Decentralized international cooperation: a new role for local governments who think globally and act locally
Unknown Author Assessing Regional Convergence under Conditions of Technology Creation and Adoption: Evidence from an Enlarged Europe
Unknown Author Insider/Outsider Tensions in Culture and Heritage Identity in Cornish Economic Development; Heritage for Action, or Heritage for Consumption?
Unknown Author Piedmont on the way to knowledge society
Unknown Author Recruitment Strategies of Firms in Rural Areas Experiencing Tight Labour and Housing Markets: the Case of East Cumbria, UK
Jérôme Vicente, Pierre-Alexandre Balland & Olivier Brossard Methodological Issues for the Empirics of Clusters and Networks in Composite Knowledge Dynamics: An Explanatory Study of the Technological field of GNSS
Elvira Viera, Isabel Neira & Emilia Vázquez Productivity and Innovation Economy: Comparative Analysis of European Nuts II, 1995-2004
Luisa Vogt Regional Economic Development and Tourism in Peripheral Regions: an Actor-Oriented Analysis of Trekking Tourism in the Piedmont Alps (Italy)
Jim Walsh Concepts and Processes in the Preparation of a National Spatial Strategy for Ireland
Brian Webb A Research Framework for the Study of Spatial Policy Coordination in Decentralised Nations
Peter Wirth, Gerard Hutter & Jochen Schanze Regional Governance in Flood Risk Mitigation - The Case of WeiBeritz-Regio
René Wokoun Regional competitiveness and regional development factors in the Czech Republic
Peter Wostner Micro-efficiency of the EU Cohesion Policy
Tetsunobu Yoshitake, Yoshihiko Tsuji, Chikashi Deguchi & Yasushi Nishida Social Capital Development associated with Infrastructure Provision. A Case of City Centre Redevelopment Project in Hyuga City, Japan.
Jacek Zaucha Planning sea space in Poland
Bart A.M. de Zwart Designing Waterland: Strategies for a Contested Arcadia

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